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Hillary’s Good Start
10/3/2009 12:00:00 AM
Since 1998 hundreds of thousands of Congolese women and children have been raped, and more than 5 million people have died. One of the first victims of the violence was my best friend—-almost a sister—and her husband. Her body was found mutilated with more than 100 bullet holes; her husband had been shot not far away from her. The incident occurred while they were traveling back to Goma from Kigali, Rwanda. At the time, I thought it was an isolated tragedy.
NEWSMAKERS
Shia Stars in ‘Crash 2’
8/2/2008 12:00:00 AM
Is Shia LaBeouf the next Lindsay Lohan? The ex-Disney (and "Indiana Jones") star already had a drunken shopping spree in Walgreens last year, and his recent DUI got so much ink, it was like Paris was headed back to jail. LaBeouf's pickup truck hit a car that reportedly ran a red light, injuring the actor's hand. First came the letter from Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Then came the guy who was selling parts of the wreck on eBay. Finally, this: "He was not drunk," said "Transformers" director Michael Bay. "He was drinking hours and hours before." Apparently, that's what the Breathalyzer showed, too.
CAMPAIGN 2008
The Crime Conundrum
Suzanne Smalley 4/14/2008 12:00:00 AM
In Philadelphia murder stories have become as commonplace as the ball scores. On Friday two brothers were sentenced to life in prison for killing a father of five to get even with his son. Late last month a man standing on a downtown subway platform died after falling victim to an apparently random attack. And in February the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old made headlines; the victim was allegedly killed in retaliation for a snowball, tossed at a friend, that inadvertently struck his assailant.
CAMPAIGN 2008
Crooked Claims About Clinton
Viveca Novak 1/18/2008 12:00:00 AM
SummaryIn a video that has logged millions of views on the Internet since early October, Peter Paul, a felon who helped produce a gala fundraiser for the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign, makes a number of false or misleading charges against the presidential contender and former First Lady. Among them:
Driving While Anti-Semitic
8/2/2006 12:00:00 AM
DIPLOMACY
A Fight Over an Ugly Past
Michael Isikoff
The House Committee vote to label Turkey's mass killing of Armenians during World War I as a "genocide" followed one of the most intense, and unusual, battles on Capitol Hill in recent memory. The measure passed despite a lobbying blitz from the Turkish government, which hired an army of K Street lobbyists to fight it.